[instrumental music] hi everyone and welcome to the National Books festival. My name is anna lehman and im the executive director of the womens Suffrage Centennial commission. Im here today with megan twohey and gail collins. Both incredible authors and writers and journalists and i cannot wait for you to hear what they have to say. I mentioned that im the executive director of the womens Suffrage Centennial commission, the commission is a very proud sponsor of the National Books festival this year, we are the sponsor of the fearless women trail, which is featuring authors who are fearless just like gail and megan also books and stories about women throughout American History. Its just really a privilege to be here in this place today with these two women. Id like to start us off with some brief introductions for gail and megan and then we will kick it off. Megan is joining us, she is the author of she said breaking the Sexual Harassment story that helped ignite a movement. She is a Pu
Interviewing top nonfiction authors about their latest work. All afterwards programs are also available as podcasts. Adam hi my name is adam. I worked with the hard times times for about four years. Ive covered National Security including the fbi in a reported extensively on the fbis russia investigation. Its known as crossfire hurricane. On a think piece for coming on and having his frank discussion with me. He actually came up with the name crossfire hurricane. So much and how he came to use that code name. But before we get into the details of the book, that you have written about. One is you tell us a little bit about yourself and your Counter Intelligence back out of the fbi. Peter first thank you to cspan for hosting. I started in the in 1996. Ive been in the army prior to that and then college. When into activeduty and then was with the fbi as an analyst with domestic terrorism back in 96. I saw the organization and the ages in a new but that was absolutely what i wanted to be d
Ike weve talked about earlier. Its nice to be in washington, d. C. When the floor of the house and the senate are actually working. Right . So go ahead and grab your seat, everybody. So our next visitor frankly needs no introduction. But ill take a brief privilege and say im an original texas boy and im a threetime baylor bear. Baylor graduate. So its always fun to welcome a fellow baylor bear to the stage of the faith and Freedom Coalition. But senator rand paul is one of the leading voices and has been for years on Civil Liberties and what the constitution actually does for us. Its not just a historic document. The constitution actually works for us. The genius, the brilliance of that document and of its design is that through generations it was crafted in a way that it actually protects each generation as we go through the years. I can think of no one in the United States senate or on capitol hill period for that matter that seems to understand hat intrinsically and in a really soph
Cease and, for on cspan now. During the discussion with your phone calls, facebook comments, text, and tweets. Cpan is your unfiltered view of government. We are funded by these Television Companies and more, including buckeye broadband buckeye broadband supports cspan as a public service, along with these other television providers. Giving you a front roweat to democracy. Susan welcome back to cspan. It was before covid that we saw you. We have been working on a biography about gerald ford a long time. Richard a surprising portrait, in many ways. There are a lot of actual revelations in the book that i am sort of surprised. He was personally blackballed by hoover as a young man, light glowing recommendations because hoover found out that ford had been involved with America First. At yale. He spent more time at yale then heated at the university of michigan. He knew about the legal problems six months before he ever acknowledged it. The interesting thing is that means the white house n
Susan welcome back to cspan. It was before covid that we saw you. We have been working on a biography about gerald ford a long time. Richard a surprising portrait, in many ways. There are a lot of actual revelations in the book that i am sort of surprised. He was personally blackballed by hoover as a young man, light glowing recommendations because hoover found out that ford had been involved with America First. At yale. He spent more time at yale then heated at the university of michigan. He knew about the legal problems six months before he ever acknowledged it. The interesting thing is that means the white house new earlier, too. Ford was a much more ambitious figure than the persona. He wanted to be Richard Nixons running mate in 1960. He discovered a process just before he left the presidency. He was approached by bill, secretary of the treasury, about john mitchell. The Campaign Manager who went to jail for his part in the watergate affair. Ford turned him down. I dont think it w